charge in december, promising to end corruption in the used chorus members, state and tours in the us are flocking back to yellowstone national park of the flooding force its closure early this month. the thousands of calls queue to get into the park with line stretching for several kilometers. more than 10000 visitors were ordered out of yellowstone 10 days ago when a number of rivers, the bangs of heavy rain and increased snow mount. ah, don't y'all just bear with me so robin and reminder of all top stories. the taliban government has appealed for international aid. after i got his thought was hit by the deadliest earthquake in 20 years. and the $1500.00 people are being killed in the portico and cost provinces. entire villages have been raised to the ground. the government, despite the sanctions that have been imposed on them by the international community

and its assets. and it has done whatever it candidates capacity and the red crescent has immediately dispatched emergency a to the area along with the turkish red crescent. and some of the other agencies relief agencies that are present here, the prime minister has announced 100000000 new which is in the currency cash assistance to the victims and millions of people stranded in ne, in india or bangladesh of the heavy rains. of course, the worst flooding in decades in india is northeast and state of a psalm rescue teams of struggling to move people to safety. at least 49 people have died since the flooding began 2 weeks ago. and authorities among the dash of intensified efforts to deliver food and drinking water to millions. after they were cut off by flooding in the northeast, about a quarter of the country is under water. north korea, as the, the kim jargon has met with his top military officials to discuss national defense

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we have to produce the bi because they knew he was in america's public enemy number one is drug abuse and the load should be international war on drugs, drug trafficking, politics and power age. drug loads on al jazeera friends in the country with a long history of activism for women's rights organizations thought the suffragette, the anti fascist leaping even of successfully poor for new right and against injustice. of course the aged. but the struggle for social justice is far from over in the thick, biggest economy in the world. the gap between rich and poor is thought an increasing welcome to generation change a global series,

the attempt to understand and challenge the idea that mobilizing around the world. my name is amanda maroney and i'm a journalist base here in london. this episode we need to young activists who was happening the root cause is violent from unjust legal and education systems, to poverty, policing and racial inequality. hulu in 2010. conservative led government came into power and implemented a policy of austerity over the next decade. billions of pounds will cut in public spending. in london use violence and knife. crime has increased at in a catch blames austerity.

sh. do right now we're in canada and you basically grew up around here, right? yeah. a lot of people know this area being a tourist destination for the market, but this is a place where you've kind of decided that you want to get involved in working in the community. why is that? i think it is. if you look at, there's immense, well, there's power the big companies, but we don't equally share the fruits of what's happening. and i think particularly as a young person, you see all the issues around youth violence. and you decide, if it's not mean who's going to be involved, then you will be so when you were 15 years old, he decided to join the youth parliament of great britain. and you gave

a really impassioned speech about refinance and the use of word, winston churchill, the former conservative leader against the conservative policies as my crime teams, more lives within our country. never has so much been lost by so many because of the indecision of so few what we think when you decided to do that, it's about the idea that you can use people's words again, that the conservative party have the set of ideals about the way they want to run with it, but they don't for a few with particular kind of rhetoric about living out the country is not matched up by any kind of real investment. this old paper over the cracks of a decade, austerity of which the entire communities under the bus or what does a fair and. busy equal, more just country look like i think is about fundamentally investing in communities

. right now we have a system in which communities, essentially left brain to problems that they face a love. but we have to think about building a society in which everyone can have a fair start in life, in which we're all given that an equal opportunity if there were some people that said, okay, that's idealistic, you're young, you don't understand the way the world works. what would you say stable, i say that we just need to reframe our kind of narrative rod history. the current perspective that we study, su 4 is kind of through the lens of the power. when we actually look is to that the moments where regular people have banded together and can achieve a look ah, doesn't have stopped many counselor states of funding since 2010 up to 1000 youth centuries have been shut down for many young people. life is becoming increasingly

difficult and dangerous. tammy, morally helps those who have been impacted by violence. this is the graham park estate needs grew up here, right? this is where i grew up. could you just tell me a little bit about what was growing up here? that 1st may he want to do work in your community. part of it is the issues that we experienced here from such a young age. living in poverty, see injustice experiencing injustice. i'm been exposed to such extreme violence. and when i was only 15, my next door neighbor, my childhood friend, marvin, he was on killed a month before his 18th birthday. and so yeah, that was definitely a catalyst for me to want to one understand how things are back can even happen in

our society. brought to work with in my community to support people who are experiencing the things that know people should actually have the experience, especially children. there are a lot to fax it to her friend does. could you just explain to me a little bit about a therapy that you provide the young people before from is on a mission to empower young people and communities to fight for justice, peace and freedom. and we support young people who have experienced violence to create change in their own lives, in our community and in society. and so it's about community empowerment. it's about uplifting young people to be able to friday and not just survive. you've also got a background in law, you've paid a law degree. how much do you feel that that impacted your work in the community and awareness of the situations that people come up again?

when i went to university and i was study in law, that's when i 1st realized how detached the legal system or the study of the legal system is from the reality. oh, i had an experience where in one lecture when we were learning about families, are fighting for justice for their loved ones being incarcerate for things that they haven't done. well, we're talking about direct be affecting my community and the future lawyers passing around really couldn't care about me. i realized i wasn't nothing to do stuff system from the inside. don't get me wrong. i respect people that do that. we have some amazing noise that we work with and i think we do need those people. i just didn't want to be one of them for i could do from the outside the work you do. it's very kind of emotional it personal. what kind of told had it taken on you being engaged in that day to day? this work can bring a little joy unfulfilled man. but i can't take away from the fact that it's really

hard to bear witness to people's pain. and watching young people process days, experiences, i feel proud that they don't have to be alone by way, experiencing those things as a community collectively way experience and to come fox. and in that sense, as long as there's injustice and all of this pain and trauma that's happening, there's no way to not be impacted. so the toll take from me as the told i take from everybody the in 2012 as part of an effort to reduce klein, the government commission to study that looked into the background of prisoners. it found that 63 percent of the inmate surveyed had been either 10 readily permanently excluded from school. the link between a bad education and future incarceration is so distinct that it is known as the school to prison pipeline.

kemi the project, the work on the forefront project works specifically with young people that have been excluded. how important you think is to engage with young people who are being excluded from schools. when you marginalize on people from education as 1st time, they will experience exclusion from society. and i think that has a knock on effect and how they perceive themselves and how they perceive the world and how they're milfred. well, falling on from that, many schools are very disciplinarian and punitive and same young people up for imprisonment sir. and young people because outside of just school exclusions, which gallow in attention, i think there's a whole spectrum of even happening in the schools before people were. i'm excluded permanently under the new legislation that they are trying to introduce and the police cause crime sentencing bill. they are ramping up secure schools that are

supposedly schools with security rather than prisons with education. there is not even a school for the pipeline anymore. we just skipped the pipeline. i went straight to the prism and it's not just about staying in school is also about what you learn and what's in the curriculum. and i can even really focal on this, you know, specifically white washing of the curriculum. how do you think that links to the progress the young people can make? i think like a fundamental part of education is you study any topic from a certain perspective. and i think currently we have a very your century perspective with clues beef, pivotal and fundamental role this country paid in things like empire colonialism, slavery. and if we kind of look at our narrative around the past, this is idea that essentially these things were ended by a kind of moral revelation or more development in the u. k. and across europe and

across the western world. but when we look at the the haitian revolution as an example of it, of a historical event, which is the only of a successful revolution in which a wallet was profitable, coney and haiti eventually overthrew ended savory. that paid a pivotal role in shifting the tide towards abolition. but if you look at the way they are currently presenting the curriculum, it's essentially around this idea of mall development in the u. k. and who has an impact on the way that we perceive social change today. because the kind of lens that we study the past in school undermines the importance in terms of the long term historical narrative that movement paid. and that means that we under emphasize the role that we can play as a movement today and tell me you're coming at this a few years further down the line is obviously graduated and been through the education system looking back. was there anything that you think was missing in the education system? i think for me,

history was the subjects i was very passionate about. i really enjoyed the civil rights movement in the miracles. one of my favorite subjects at the time leaving school i. so i knew nothing about the movement in this country. i'm learning everything that's happening in america. i had no idea about all of the black liberation organizing that was happening in this country way before i was born. i'm will continue to happen way all right, bye. so why wasn't, i've been for about my own history in this country is something that i can connect with and relate to and not going to build my understanding of the world i'm living in of the society i'm living. and that's something that i really would have value and they get me wrong. i think international solidarity is really important. so i am glad that i got that understanding of what was happening abroad, but it shouldn't have come at the expense of learning anything about what was happening in this country. in the ending march

2020, there were around 46000 recorded offences involving a knife and in london, the metropolitan police has warned that 2021 is on track to being the worst year of teenage killings in more than a decade. as a response, the ruling conservative party has called the police to be given way to power. while many journalists in the british media, he's a gang label without factoring in the all the reasons that lead to define it. to me, you've spoken about the importance of the distinction between the gang coach. i knew the violence. why do you think it's so important that that distinction is understood, developing an understanding of how particular labels are used to fathom marginalized, and ostracized particular groups? the word gang in this country has become synonymous with black youth. why one would off as a question why? what really is a guy?

i mean, when you look at the legal definition, hooligan, they could be a gotten by the legal definition of various groups of people that could fit the definition of a gun. but the word gang is never used the label, then there's various research and studies, for example, one by heart bessie that showed that a cross section of the media that they studied 62 percent of the time. and when a label was being used to describe black youth, black men and black boys in particular, it was the gang label. and i think it's really to store in the root causes of the issues of violence uniting and on. do you agree you have to think about the fundamental drivers and we should be like social economic inequality and how that is the root cause of violence. young black men, a particular present is being like immoral. and i think that connects to the stereotype in which is need to essentially read those who are empower of the responsibility. do they have been creating the social conditions for this?

why is it because it's not like like the economic inequality that exists in our communities. the closer view of the di, funding of education, the lack of inclusive curriculum. these are all decisions being made by people in power. and so the user stereotypes and those perceptions as a way of attention distancing themselves from how their policies have caused these social conditions and drive this violence. the gang label to me, that is an example of how certain labels, certain approaches are established to deny people. dad bruce to access the resources and support that they require to heal. so many young people die themselves. house, you know, perpetrated violence again are the young people themselves have also been victims, multiple times, repeat victimization, and said, is this, i call victimization, not healing, victimization, healing got to be fair. if there's no that can protect you, if there's no one that couldn't prevent that harmless thought that harm or support

you all you've experienced palm. why wouldn't young people take matters in their hands? and that's something that doesn't get enough attention to something that i've heard a lot was reporting on the fine is that a lot of young men feel unsafe and they don't feel like there is anybody that's going to come and help them. they don't feel like they trust the police. could you think of something that would make young men feel more safe in the u. k? i think we have to challenge like what is the notion of safety and why she is safety? because the way the law politicians talk about is like net the street with as many police officers. and that's like safety for who. because actually, if we look at those in our community who are risk of having a not violence committed against the police are not necessarily looking at them as people who could potentially be victims and then looking at them in a very that kind of lens of suspicion of all you about to commit require that so that the way that the police interacting with people is not from

a position of necessarily trying to look out for them is often for perspective kind of suspicious. and i think linked about something that's really important to say is talking about how we want to move away from a punitive system. doesn't mean we want to move away from accountability responsibility. and i just want to make that clear who's really important to actually know that the system we have, there's no incentive for accountability. we have an adversarial court system where because of what our stake i, there's no incentive for me to say i did this. i hom, this person, and i want to make amends. i want to repaired at home. why would anybody and i'm just talking about extreme cases where people have been killed. i'm talking about right the way down to more trivial matters. but i dealt with 3 the course, there is no incentive, so actually the society that we have from a moral point of view is really not interested, intrigued, accountability responsibility. one of the things i think is important. so what is

the contentious debate around at drew music and you know, there's an argument that glam wise is violence and that it perpetuate violence. but i wanted to hear what you guys think about your music. specifically. this is an age old debate in relation to trying to regulate a press on black, black music. what you have to understand is that for maybe the 1st time in communities that have been economically completely marginalized, abandoned here now comes over a pathway for some means of material success. for young people that have been excluded from other forms of income generation. so people's material needs are not being met and here comes a way that people can, can do that and achieve i think, what do you think about this kind of june music to part the, the right wing in our society. because he went to him by issues of violence, another one that was handy distractions by which they can kind of distance

themselves from their direct role in creating the conditions which via it happens. because where have you ever seen the argument that any other phone, john, where the husband lives punk or what drives people to violent? like if there was a look at all kind of map out, one of the things driving why and there's a social inequality is a school fusion is all these are the issues. but how is it nearing in a song, the supposedly going to be driving the device? it just doesn't make sense. you know, they know that there is an argument made that what you're talking about punk, or if you're talking about these other forms of a barley music, right? the difference is that with some dro, visa has been specific references to real life. cases of mud is of happened. people are, you know, basically using a song to say we kill this person, this is how we did it. and that's different to punk music. i think there's definitely coming to be said about that. but there's also,

like we just have to look and the fact that these young people lyrics of a narrative of their lives experience. but we need to ask ourselves how as a society, we creating a situation in which these kind of movies are happening. what does it reflect about and the way that our society is being run, obviously points out there's a phone rings or problems that we need to tackle. there is a lot of focus on the violence in the lyrics of the songs, but if you listen to artists like dave or storms in a lot, the mainstream people are speaking. there are a lot learn to talk about the mental health effects that these new experiences had people and for some reason those things don't really seem to cause i don't think a faith in the narrative, not a problem. one of my favorite songs of dave is actually called panic attack and it's from like his 1st a e p and i just so moved by really moved and i think there's a lot of music that is really documenting what young people are experiencing. and the kind of life that they have to live,

how they have to navigate their own safety, their own pass, and her dad, right and to dignity on respect. and the told about takes mensa me, and it just was perfectly encapsulated for me in that song and that there's other songs by example, as well. i think if people are so concerned about drill, they should be horrified about people having those live to experience. i've asked him said, why are we not more interested in that? me? in 2017. a fire broke out in grenville tower, a residential building that provided social housing in london. 72 people lost their lives later merged that the fire spread so rapidly because grunfeld exterior insulation, it's cutting with highly flammable. and that when the building was renovated, the year before, to improve its external appearance management at the flammable cutting because it was cheaper. we didn't have this conversation without

mentioning glenville, it's become a massive symbol of social inequality and injustice in the u. k. what do you feel like it represents your generation? what happened at grand tower? thumbs up, everything this wrong with the way the our society is. if you look at the way that there were systemic racism in terms of who actually died, most of the people were black and brown. if we look at the fact that this would have happened in a richer community. if we look at the fact that people had been repeatedly warned about the danger of this building and the fact that none of the people who involved and what happened in photography contravir. and it just shows what is so fundamental one with us. it was stopping searching young people for non violent drug possession and playing them in prison. but you can get away with 72 people losing their life in a fire. what does that tell us about the way that our society is one? i thought heartbroken. like most people about what happened, i gram foul,

and i think for me it symbolizes the neglect the abandoned men. and that's something that resumes with me a lot because i come from a community. and my estate again neglected abandoned and left to ra entity, re a and to me grandfather speak to that because it's more important for this. i sort of a block to look pretty for that of a wealthy people that live near it. then it is for people to have the right to be safe in their own home. it's really interesting speak briefly at the same time because there are lots of overlaps and what you're saying. but tammy, you said to me the other day that no one's coming to save us, we're gonna have to do this for ourselves. so your position slightly outside the system and your thinking of possibly pursuing a career in politics. why and trying to effect change from inside the system? why do you still have, i guess faith in the system. also,

all of the things we've spoken about will look a lot the way there, lot of issues and politics and talked about now it's people who are outside the system who shape the way that politics interacts with society. because they kind of, if we look at like racial justice, the ideas around transformative justice, these ideas that politicians are putting forward these ideas that community activists and other people put forward. and if it's not necessary that we can solely need the change. but how can there be nice people who are within the system, her receptive to these different visions of society? and i think what i want to see in politics is a kind of generational shift in which my generation can try redesign. we shape them . because just as there were people who made the system this way, so can there be, i think people who can time make it work for the vast majority of people in this country, following them from that point semi in the back of what you said to me and how do you feel looking at the system more generally?

i respect, i found the decision if he wants to go in there and i feel we need to toward a political system where we have people that represent tough people of the people of the community from the community for the community. and unfortunately, we looked our petition just not the case me. so if we can have young people like i can feed them, but they can transform that system to be where we can actually have that representation. then i think that is a worthwhile ambition to have pass and the i wouldn't want to do that myself. i want to empower people on the ground. and i think that the 2 can work hand in hand boss my focus. when i look back on my life, i want to say this is how i invested my energy because we have limited energy. we have limited time, i'm resource. and so that's my decision of how i've wanted to use my. busy time and resources to try and create impacts and create change. well, there's been so much of this conversation which is positive, you know,

and at this time that something i think a lot of people are searching for. thank you so much for coming and speaking to generation change and i look forward to seeing you in the future sun, sand. and so a wise postcard image hides a piece of battle over the past and future of these island parents. when an 8th meet the locals determined to keep for why, for why. on al jazeera examining the impact of today's headlines yesterday, our electricity was turned off. this is all alive, setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussion. if somebody comes to gonna from europe, been never called an immigrant, the always known as an x path. international filmmakers in world class journalists bring programs to inform and inspire. we live one people on this one planet and

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